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Employee privacy and email monitoring ethics at Vitruvius Sportswear

Dennis Gardner, a marketing manager for Seattle's Vitruvius Sportswear has recently found out that his boss has been monitoring his email transactions at work and reading his personal email. He found this out by way of one of the company's IT systems engineers who told him what was going on.

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Henri Fayol's principles of management and organizational ethics

Of Henri Fayo's fourteen principles of management, the four most directly related to my management style are the ones that seem most critically interrelated. Consider principle number four of unity of command.

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Personal values versus corporate ethics in workplace decision-making

Often a company's mission statement or code of ethics provides a framework for employees to base difficult decisions.

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The role of ethics in auditing standards and CPA professional conduct

Auditing Standards must, out of necessity, be of the highest possible standards, and the ethics involved must be of the best quality possible.

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The Dowd Model's application to healthcare worker substance abuse ethics

The traditional decision making model is what is really taught in a lot of ethics programs is outside the reading understanding level of an assessed 25% of the worker population.

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Walter Maner and James Moor's foundational theories of computer ethics

The term "computer ethics," as coined by Walter Maner in the 1970s, refers to a field of study that examines "ethical problems aggravated, transformed, or created by computer technology" (Maner, 1980).

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Director liability under the business judgment rule in corporate cases

Liable Directions? As company ombudsman, your task is to investigate complaints of wrongdoing on the part of corporate directors and officers, decide whether there is a violation of the law, and deal with the wrongdoers accordingly.

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Religious and philosophical influences on managerial ethics

Although different doctrine controls different religions, all of the major religions preach some form of responsibility to society in general. Christian managers reading and seeking direction from the Bible exemplifies the use of a religious text to influence the managerial thought process.

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Ethics Awareness Inventory and its applications in organizational psychology

Ethics are at the core of human behavior and decision-making. This paper evaluates the results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory, a proprietary software designed to measure a person's ethical stance.

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Schools of ethics: questionnaire responses and concepts

The idea that the assisted suicide of terminally ill patients should be allowed simply at the patient's direction reflects what type of ethics?

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